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  • From: "Eckert, Robert G SPC RES" <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Percy quote? (UNCLASSIFIED)
  • Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:09:56 -0600

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Jonathan,

Thank you, that is it.

I ran across Percy quoting Kierkegaard (Converstaions with WP, p.67)while I
was looking.

"Every man has to stand in front of the house of his childhood in order to
recover himself"

Robert


On 11/13/10, Jonathan Potter <jopomojo AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert,
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> Could this be the passage you had in mind:
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> Lost in the Cosmos, p. 146-7 (From "The Orbiting Self" section): "Only one
> example comes to mind of a writer who, though performing at a very high
> level of twentieth-century art, nevertheless manages to live on one of the
> few remaining islands of a more or less intact culture, in the very house
> where she was born, to enter into an intercourse with the society around
> her as naturally as the Chartres sculptor, to appear as herself, her self,
> the same self, both to fellow writer and fellow townsman: Eudora Welty.  
> Perhaps also William Carlos Williams.  If you do not think this remarkable,
> imagine that you have lived your entire life in the house where you were
> born.  For an American, an uncanny, even an unsettling fantasy."
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> Best regards,
>
>
> Jonathan Potter
> Spokane WA
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> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Eckert, Robert G SPC RES
> <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil(blockedmailto:robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil)>
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> > Dear List,
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> > I seem to recall Percy saying something about missing living in the house
> > you grew up in. The house I grew up in is on the market and has me
> > racking my brains trying to remember/find that quote.
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> > Or, I could have the author wrong...
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